Ken Thwaits swept the GTL class at Optima's Search for the Ultimate Street Car at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He won all 4 competitive portions of the event (Design & Engineering, Autocross, Speed Stop, and Hot Laps), in his Showtime Motorsports.net Mitsubishi EVO.

We had a great time and good result at the USCA OPTIMA Batteries Search for the Ultimate Street Car Association round #5 race at Pikes Peak International Raceway this weekend. We ran our EVO that had a brand new look this weekend and we're thrilled with how it performed and especially its reliability! We finished 2nd (99 points) in AutoX, 2nd (99 points) in Speed Stop, 3rd (98 points) on the road course, and I don't know where we placed overall in Design and Engineering but it was down the list and we received 83 points for a 479 point total for the weekend! A huge THANK YOU to Bob Boileau for being the hostess with the Mostess! PPIR is a great facility with a laid back attitude that fits our event perfectly! Thank you Jimi Day, Brian Mason, Adam Hanna, and the rest of the USCA crew for toughing out the warm weather and running a great event. Congrats to Rich Willhoff for the GTL/Overall win! Rich is legit and put on a clinic for the rest of us! Congrats to Jordan Priestly who got his win in GT and to Jake Rozelle for his GTV win. We will continue with the EVO at Charlotte and will continue to improve the car as we try to battle for the overall win and the all mighty yearlong quest to solve the elusive D&E rubiks cube! Thanks to AIRAID Detroit Speed Centerforce FORGELINE Mast Motorsports Ultimate Performance Pennzoil Wilwood Evolution Dynamics MTI Racing JRI Shocks

Great weekend in Las Vegas racing with the Ultimate Street Car Association. We spent a lot of time on the podium which is always a great way to end the weekend. Ken Thwaits took 1st place overall in the GT Class.

We are extremely pleased with the out come of the first USCA event atThunderhill Raceway! The whole weekend was a grind but we did not give up. Ken Thwaits drove the 2014 Z28 until he could drive no more and earned 1st place in the GT class!

2015 OUSCI has come to an end. Congratulations to all the competitors. Ken Thwaits finished 5th in the autocross, 8th in the speed stop,and 7th place overall. Cody Mason also had a solid performance in the Z28 this weekend. He finished 18th out of 84 competitors.

Very exciting weekend in Plymouth, WI. Highlights from the weekend include a tour of the Snap-on Tools facility in Milwaukee, the Nascar Xfinty Series race on Saturday, and Ken Thwaits winning an invite to the OUSCI in his RS built Evo IX RS!

August 8-9

Ken Thwaits drove the black Z/28 in the GT class, and debuted the new EVO in GTL that Ronnie Soliman and the RS crew built for us! Thwaits finished 2nd in both classes!

USCA Michigan International Speedway has come to an end. Ken Thwaits took home the Lingenfelter Design and Engineering award and placed third on the Falken Tire Road Course Challenge.

Congratulations to all the winners for a hard fought battle and also our very own Ken Thwaits for placing third in the Lingenfelter Design and Engineering challenge, and third in Falken Tire Hot Lap event!

Drivers brought their A game to Vegas. Ken Thwaits won the Detroit Speed autocross, placed second in the Falken Tire road course time trial, and placed second place in the overall GT category.

The second Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car event in the books...

Congratulations to Ken Thwaits for second place and Ryan Matthews for first! Also, thank you to Ultimate Performance for helping tune our cars, and Raymonds Performance for keeping them running.

Ken Thwaits was the winner of the GT class during the round 1 event of the OPTIMA Search for the Ultimate Street Car at Thunderhill Raceway Park.

70 drivers came out to compete, adding up to over 2600 combined laps over the weekend!

"The GT3K class was by far the most-competitive of the three classes, with close to 200 competitors entering events throughout the season and more than 150 of those entrants finishing events and scoring points toward the season-long standings. Had Thwaits not finished the Pittsburgh event and failed to score any points, seven drivers would've caught and passed him in the USCA points standings! As it ended, Ken's podium finish kept him on top of the standings, holding off Bryan Johnson, who had three great finishes in the final five events and Kyle Tucker, who finished just 2.5 points behind Johnson.

So how did Ken end up running multiple cars and qualifying for the OUSCI in two different vehicles? "It happened by chance and out of necessity," says Thwaits. "After Texas, I contracted with Bruce Raymond of Raymond’s Performance to build us a Camaro 1LE to compete in more of the USCA events. At the same time, I took delivery of a new Z/28 and had Lingenfelter Performance Engineering build us an engine for the Z/28." The Raymond's crew continued to work on the 1LE, but the Z28 was fast right out of the box, so Ken hopped behind the wheel of that car and went to work." - See more HERE